Improvement in bottle-stoppers



w. A. Rm.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

Patented Nov.28,1876.

I i n W'ITNESSES,

PATENT FFIGE.

WILLIAM A ROOT, OF BENNINGTON, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-STOPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 184,908, dated November 98, 1876; application filed Y April 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. R001, of the town of Bennington in the county of Bennington and State of Vermont, have invented an Improved Bottle-Stopper; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, cleaigand exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, in which my invention is exhibited in Figure l, as attachedto an ordinary bottle. In Fig. 2, certain details in the construction of my bottle-stopper are shown in a longitudinal section through the center thereof on a plane coincident with the axis of the tubular aperture G. Fig. 3 exhibits a longitudinal section of my invention, taken on a plane at right angles with the axis of the hole 0, in Fig. 1, and parallel with the axis of the trunnion-piece D. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section of my stopper, taken on the line :0 a; of Fig. 3.

This invention has for its object to provide that class of bottles used for putting up soda, and other effervescent liquids, with a globular or spherical stopper, having for its seat the open end of the neck of the bottle or jug,-

which stopper is provided with trunnions, by which it is rotated on its seat, and is permanently attached to the bottle by a yoke of wire or other suitable device.

The style of yoke which I have shown is made of wire, and the loops or eyes for the reception of the pintles D D of the stopper are formed by twisting the wire, as shown, into the desired form; but the yoke may be made in one piece from brass, malleable iron, or any other suitable material, and may have the loops at any desired elevation above the neck, to adapt it tothe use of other varieties of stoppers.

- is perforated with an aperture, G, which is at right angles with the plane of the annulus J J, and passes through the center thereof. The perforation 0, when rotated into a position coincident with the axis of the neck of the bottle, forms the conduit, through which the contents of the bottle are received and discharged. The globe B is firmly secured to the bottle and to its seat thereon by means of the yoke E E, which is attached to the bottle underneath the shoulder formed by the nozzle, as seen in Fig. 1. Each of the pintles, or

to its seat on the nozzle F that the pressure of gaseous and effervescent liquids will be adequately resisted, and yet not so firmly as to prevent the easy rotation of the globe B on its bearings. The yoke E E may be made of wire, malleable'iron, or any suitable material, and attached to the bottle in any convenient way, so long as it serves to confine properly the globe B in place and facilitate its rotation upon its seat.

Another style of core is seen in Fig. 2. Here I have constructed a small section of tube, G, with projecting pintles D D to receive the loops of the yoke E. I have shown how these pintles may be constructed to facilitate the rotationof the globe B. One pintle I have formed into a square shank to receive a key, as seen at H. On its companion I have shown a small thumb-screw, I, by either of which the stopper may be rotated. The elastic globe or stopper is then formed about the tubular core G, as shown in the figure, and its attachment to and operation in connection with the bottle are precisely like that shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, claim protection by Letters Patent upon the following:

1. A spherical bottle-stopper constructed with a diametrical aperture for the passage 3. The yoke E E, constructed, attached and of the contents of the bottle and provided operated substantially-as set forth.

with pintles or other suitable means to t'acili- In testimony whereof I have hereto afiixed tate its rotation on the mouth of the bottle my hand at Benningtou, Vermont, this 1st substantially as specified. day of April, A D. 1876.

2. The globular stopper B with diametrical WILLIAM A. ROOT. orifice and pintles D I) in combination with Witnesses: yoke E E adapted to be attached to and oper- O.'E. HOUGHTON, ated upon the neck of a bottle, as specified. F. G. MATTISON. 

